SITE Academic Conference "Fighting Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries"

On August 31 and September 1, 2015 the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the ASWEDE network will host an academic conference at the Stockholm School of Economics to bring together researchers across all fields of economics contributing to the debate about corruption, its effects, and the optimal tools to fight it.

Start time:
2015-08-31 at 08:30

End time:
2015-09-01 at 16:00

Location:
Entrance: Saltmätargatan 13-17 or Holländargatan 32

The conference will focus on low and middle-income countries and the role of legal institutions, with one section in particular focusing on the experience of the transition countries in the CIS and CEE regions.

Kaushik Basu is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is on leave from Cornell University where he is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies. From December 2009 to July 2012 he served as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India at the Ministry of Finance. Till 2009 he was Chairman of the Department of Economics and during 2006-9 he was Director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell.

We invite you to read research papers that will be presented during the conference. Papers can be downloaded below taking into account that copyright to the individual works is retained by the author(s).

Day 1: Monday, August 31.

Morning Session

Keynote: Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank

Corruption, Food Security and the Foundations of Law and Economics | Presented paper